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by DanBC 3974 days ago
Your post mentions women leaving for maternity leave, but makes no mention of men leaving for paternity leave. It's probably a problem for society that we assume men are not interested in childcare and won't take much time off.

> I almost want to liken it to my car insurance, as weird as it sounds.

It's a little bit weird because we have so much information telling us that young men are much more likely to be involved in an accident. I don't think you're saying that we have a lot of evidence to show that women are going to be terribly costly hires. And in some places (the EU) insurance companies can't use gender.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12608777

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> I don't think you're saying that we have a lot of evidence to show that women are going to be terribly costly hires.

No, you're right, I'm not. But biologically they are the only sex able to have babies, and paternity is still very far from catching on.

I should note I support paternity leave and hopefully will be taking it someday when I have children of my own.